Book Hauls!

[dask]

SPURS by The Western Writers Of America (that's what it says). Twenty-five short stories.

GREY SEAS UNDER by Farley Mowat

[Lamont Cranston]

In the last three book buying trips since mid November-ish I've picked up:
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Fantasy Masterworks #32 The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
Trouble is my Business - Raymond Chandler
Penguin Classics The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gather, Darkness* - Fritz Leiber
The Green Millennium*
The Wanderer*
Ship to the Stars*
Night of the Wolf*
A Spectre is Haunting Texas*
Our Lady of Darkness*
Changewar*
Interfaces, an anthology of Speculative Fiction* edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd
SF Masterworks #16 The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Word for World is Forest*
Rocannon's World and Planet of Exile*
City of Illusions*
The Stealer of Souls, Chronicles of the Last Emperor of Melniboné: Volume I - Michael Moorcock
Penguin Classics Titus Groan* - Mervyn Peake
Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home* - James Tiptree, Jr.
Up The Walls of the World*
Peace* - Gene Wolfe
The Devil in the Forest*
Free Live Free*
Soldier of the Mist*
In The Wake of Man* - R.A. Lafferty, Gene Wolfe, Walter Moudy
astrix are second-hand, italics have been read, currently reading Green Millennium.
I think I went a bit overboard.

[dask]

Don't feel bad. I did this kind of stuff when I was single in my twenties.

[Jayaprakash Satyamurthy]

The Place Called Dagon: Herbert Gorman

[j. d. worthington]

Now, I would really like to see your thoughts on that one, JP. It has been some years since I read it, but I found it a rather strange -- but worthwhile -- experience....

[AE35Unit]

Originally Posted by knivesout

The Place Called Dagon: Herbert Gorman

Named after the Lovecraft story?

[j. d. worthington]

No; it is highly unlikely that Gorman had ever read HPL's short tale. The title comes from the fact that there was a place quite similar in history, that of the so-called Mare Mount, Merrymount, etc., which was the site of the scandalous (to the Puritans) activities of Thomas Morton and his crew; the same legendry as prompted Gorman's tale also lay behind Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and "The Maypole of Merrymount", both possible inspirations for Gorman's novel. The Dagon here is, of course, the original pagan deity... a figure which, oddly enough, crops up periodically on old New England tombstones from the seventeenth century. At any rate, there was some folklore that associated the activities of Morton and his fellow colonists with pagan worship, including Dagon; there is a bit of folklore, in fact, which includes such a placename as a result (iirc).

[murphy]

After becoming engrossed in K. J. Parker's Colours in the Steel, I bought the following:

The Belly of the Bow
The Proof House

Also the Scavenger Trilogy
Shadow
Pattern
Memory

and I thought I'd give Jim Hines a try by buying The Stepsister Scheme.

[dask]

GALLERY OF HORROR edited by Charles L. Grant. Twenty stories specializing in "the art of horror, as practiced to perfection by the greatest modern masters of that ghoulish trade" circa 1983 and yeah, they're all here. A little more a beat up than I like for a used paperback but good enough for 69 cents. ROC edition, 1997; subtle but effective cover by Jim Thiesen. Looks like a good one.

[jojajihisc]

Originally Posted by dask

GALLERY OF HORROR edited by Charles L. Grant. Twenty stories specializing in "the art of horror, as practiced to perfection by the greatest modern masters of that ghoulish trade" circa 1983 and yeah, they're all here. A little more a beat up than I like for a used paperback but good enough for 69 cents. ROC edition, 1997; subtle but effective cover by Jim Thiesen. Looks like a good one.

I liked it, especially Canavan's Back Yard and Death to the Easter Bunny!.

[murphy]

I just bit the bullett and ordered a copy of David Wingrove's Marriage of the Living Dark. I've been waiting for over 10 years to find a copy cheap enough and decided that I wouldn't ever. It's the 8th book in the Chung Kho series and I would like to know how it all ended.

Merry Christmas from me to me.

[thesoothsayer]

Light of Other Days and Pandora's Star arriving tomorrow.

Just finished the Forge of God.

[Heather Myst]

You know shopping really isn't that bad when you are shopping for yourself. Here was my last major haul including pre orders. This ought to keep me busy until Martin gets Dance With Dragons published.

Best Served Cold Joe Abercrombie
Starfinder John Marco
Progigal Mage Karen Miller
Watcher of the Dead J.V. Jones
Queen of Oblivion Giles Carwyn and Todd Fahnestock
The Other Lands David Durham
Nyphron Rising Michael J. Sullivan
Dragon Keeper Robin Hobb
Tyrant's Blood Fiona McIntosh
Rats and the Ruling Sea Robert Redick
Gods of Amyrantha Jennifer Fallon
Warbreaker and Hero of Ages Brandon Sanderson
The Steel Remains Richard Morgan
Spirit Lens Carol Berg
Treasons Shore Sherwood Smith
Dark Eyes' War and Horseman's Gambit David Coe
Princeps' Fury and First Lord's Fury Jim Butcher
Toll the Hounds and Dust of Dreams Steven Erikson
Sword of Truth series Terry Goodkind

PS I am actively seeking a co-signer for my next haul. Being hooked on fantasy is not cheap.

[Karn Maeshalanadae]

Well, other than the first three Rhapsody books by Elizabeth Haydon and the first four volumes of Song of Ice and Fire, I'm hoping soon to get the last three Rhapsody books as a late Christmas gift....

[Lioness]

I went to the bookshop today and traded in my old books for some new ones.

I got:

Zorro - Isabel Allende
Clan of the Cave Bear (for my sister) - Jean M Auel
State of Fear - Michael Crichton
Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn